What they do.
Educate Brass Foundation supports 35 children directly and 75 indirectly through outreaches, with talent development, especially brass music, and education support. The foundation is based in Sheema District, in western Uganda, and teaches trumpet, trombone, and French horn.
Students rehearse in two groups. The Senior Group practices every day for two hours, and for up to three hours on weekends. The Junior Group practices for two hours on Saturdays and Sundays. The foundation also teaches in three nearby schools and partners with a community band.
Brass Band Training
Students learn trumpet, trombone, and French horn. The band is also hired to play at functions, and that income pays part of the program’s costs.
Who They Serve
35 children and young people learn at the foundation, and more take part through three partner schools. Students are between 4 and 18 years old. Classes are taught in English and Runyankore.
Who Teaches
Mutyaba Emmanuel teaches most classes. Two volunteer teachers from Kampala join during school holidays, and a teacher in Italy sometimes gives lessons online.
Their work in pictures.
Why this program exists.
Mutyaba Emmanuel describes the need plainly: affordable music learning has not been available to children in this area. Sheema District is rural, and the brass bands of western Uganda are far from one another. Some students walk up to two hours from home to rehearse. The foundation responds with free music education and education support.
Educate Brass Foundation provides free music education and education support to these children to help them discover their potential.
More than brass music.
At Educate Brass Foundation, music is a means to more opportunities for children. Going back to school is one of those opportunities. The foundation also plans to prepare its students for the graded music examinations of ABRSM, the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.
Thirty-five students learn at the foundation. Six of them have gone back to school.
Meet the team.
He is a tenor trombone player and a professional in Project Planning and Management, he has experience in program execution and impact delivering.
How you can support this program
A gift to Educate Brass Foundation has specific uses. Mutyaba Emmanuel lists them: brass instruments and their repair, valve oil and other supplies, and chairs for rehearsals. The foundation rents its rehearsal space, and heavy rains flood it and stop practice. The program is growing, and its instruments need more storage room. The longer-term goal is a building of its own, where students can practice and instruments are kept safe.
